Searching for the Limits of Local Error Correction Tuesday, April 30, 2024 Information can be finicky, especially if it has to travel. Whether you're making a phone call over a wireless network, playing music from a CD, or saving a document to a hard drive, when you transform or transmit information from one location to another, it has to go through many channels. Peter Manohar, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department, worked with former assistant professor Pravesh Kothari to develop ways to improve error-correction algorithms by breaking apart the math behind them. More
Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly Tuesday, October 11, 2022 "This is code downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to run it?" In today's computer programming landscape, developers often face the challenge of safely using untrusted code. Libraries and frameworks, for example More